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Saturday, January 02, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
FLYERS NEWS
The Flyers faced off against the Bruins this afternoon in the winter classic, the NHL's annual outdoor game and it really was classic, until the end unfortunately. Early on it was all Flyers with defenseman Danny Svyret scoring his first career goal just 4 minutes into the 1st period for a 1-0 lead. They had ample opportunities after that to put Boston away, but the Flyers were unable to light the lamp again. It looked like it wouldn't matter though as Micheal Leighton took a shutout into the final 3 minutes of the 3rd period. Then Danny Briere was called for tripping, to give Boston one last chance for the equalizer. The Flyers nearly killed off the power play and sealed a win, but with about 30 seconds left on the penalty, Boston was able to get one past Leigthon at last to tie it at 1. Later with about a minute to play Kimmo Timonen hit with a questionable tripping call himself, as 6-7 behemoth Zdeno Chara tripped over Timonen's stick after Kimmo had fallen down in front of the net. So Boston was on the power play the rest of the way. Flyers managed to escape regulation with the game tied, to secure at least a point, and then they killed it off to start overtime. Unfortunately, just after the power play Boston somehow managed to get 5 guys on the ice, 6 by some counts(only 4 players can be on the ice at once during overtime), and Marco Sturm used the advantage to score the winning goal for Boston, in a 2-1 hearbreaker. Still, the Flyers get at least a point for the 5th game in a row, and with 41 points, they are still 9th in the East, just a point out of 8th.
PHILLIES NEWS
The Phils have agreed on contract with free agent relief pitcher Danys Baez, formerly of the Orioles. Baez had a 4.02 ERA, while allowing just 59 hits in 71 innings last season for the O's. In his career Baez has 114 saves so he could be valuable as a guy who can close games every now and then. That's especially important for the Phils, with both Brad Lidge, and J.C Romero coming off elbow surgery. Also it appears Chan Ho Park won't be back with the Phils next season, and Scott Eyre still has not decided whether he'll play another year for the Phils or retire. So while Baez will help to improve the Phils bullpen they're no deeper back their now than they were last season, but at least now they have another option at the back of the bullpen, besides the usuals, Romero, Lidge, and Madson.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
SIXERS NEWS
The Sixers rang in the New Year on the west coast tonight as they continued their road trip in L.A with a matchup against the Clippers. Incredibly the Sixers actually got off to a quick start in this one and had the lead at halfime 51-49. Unfortunately everything went sour from there for the Sixers. I mean they just lost it almost completely in the 2nd half. Meanwhile, the Clips did what the Sixers have the last couple games and started shooting lights out, outscoring the Sixers 29-14 in the 3rd quarter en route to an easy 104-88 victory. All told the Sixers wound up shooting just 36% from the field and 25% from beyond the arc, which isn't going to beat anyone. They also allowed L.A to shoot 54% from the field and 62% from beyond the arc with 10 threes, the kind of numbers anyone could beat the Sixers with. In short it was a game to forget for the Sixers and what they need to remember are the two games prior to this one. That's the way they need to play the rest of the season. Anymore games like this and it won't be too long until there is nothing left for them to play for. By the way, have a Happy New Year everyone!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
SIXERS NEWS
The Sixers continued their road trip tonight in Sacramento with a matchup against the Kings. After a stirring victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in their last game the Sixers actually came in looking to string together back to back wins. With the King' s top 2 scorers, Tyreke Evans, and Kevin Martin missing for the game, the Sixers had a golden opportunity to take it too the the young Kings for the victory. Instead they almost let the opportunity get away from them. Early on just couldn't hit anything, as they fell behind the Kings by 11 after a quarter of play. Then they slowly started to get their rhythm in 2nd quarter and by the half they picked it up completely, rallying all the way back to tie it at 50. In the 2nd half they just kept it going at a blistering pace, shooting 52% from the field and 56% from beyond the arc with 9 threes, and before you knew it the Sixers had rolled to another win, 116-106. Lou Williams and AI led the way with 22 and 20 respectively, while Andre Iguodala added 19, Thad Young dropped 11 and Elton Brand and Rodney Carney each chipped in with 14 off the bench in a true team effort. This really was the best game the Sixer's have played this season. For the first time they actually looked like they were running Eddie Jordan's offense and succeeding. They also fairly good defense against a highscoring Kings team. If they can just keep this up the rest of the season they'll be tough beat it and then who knows what can happen. For now anyway they are 9-22 overall and just 3.5 games out of the 8th in the Eastern conference.
FLYERS NEWS
The Flyers continued their road trip tonight in New York, this time against the Rangers, as they looked for their 4th win in a row. The last time these two teams faced each other at the Wachovia center, New York go the win as the Flyers were shutout by Henrick Lundqvist. Tonight the Orange and Black returned the favor. Once again they got off to a quick start with Blair Betts scoring against his old team just 54 seconds into the game for a 1-0 lead. Then later in the first period, Danny Briere and Claude Girouz each added goals for a 3-0 lead that got Lundqvist pulled from the game in favor of Chad Johnson, no not that one. In the 2nd period Johnson faired no better than Lundqvist as Simon Gagne beat him twice for a 5-0 lead. Finally, halfway through the 3rd period Gagne scored his 3rd goal of the night to complete his 1st hat trick since 2005 and all but finish off a 6-0 win. Micheal Leighton was pretty good in goal again, saving all 22 shots that came his way for his 4th career shootout. Again though, it was really more great defense in front of Leighton than great goaltending by Leighton. Still, with that kind of goaltending and scoring each night it appears the Flyer's are rounding into shape at just the right time. We'll see if they can keep it going but for now at 19-18-2 overall for 40 points, they are all the way back up to 8th in the Eastern conference and are firmly back in the discussion for the playoffs.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
EAGLES NEWS
The Pro Bowl selections were announced today and 6 Eagles were selected. Desean Jackson was selected as a starter at WR and kick returner, the first time in NFL history that a player has been selected to start in the pro bowl at multiple positions, and the 1st in Eagles' history that a player has been selected to start as the kick returner. Joining Jackson as NFC starters are tackle Jason Peters, CB Asante Samuel, FB Leonard Weaver, and kicker David Akers. Defensive End Trent Cole was also selected as a reserve and QB Donovan Mcnabb was selected as a first alternate.
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